338 Mr. G. 0. Champion on the 



Length (excl. head) 10^-12^, breadth 3^-4 mm. (c? ? .) 

 Hab. Arabia, Yemen {Millingen)^ Ktubu and El Kubar 

 (G. jr. Bury). 



Three males and two females. Near /. arabica, but with 

 the cJ -antennae dilated as in a Lycid, the elytra wholly nigro- 

 cyaneous or black. One of the females, that from El Kubar, 

 somewhat discoloured^ has the head almost entirely black, 

 the legs partly infuscate, and the elytra black. The narrow, 

 elongate head, broad antennse, shorter pubescence, differently 

 coloured body, &c., separate /. laticornis from the Abyssinian 

 /. fulvicollis, Reiche. The stout, abruptly bent median 

 lobe, as seen from above, has the long apical portion broadly 

 sagittiform. 



Chinese Species. 



Prothorax and elytra testaceous, the apices of the latter 



black ". : Nos. 11, 12. 



Prothorax tlavous, head and elytra metallic; tarsal claws 



simple ; body narrow, elongate No. 13. 



Prothorax and front of head testaceous, elytra obscurely 

 metallic ; tarsal claws widened basally ; body narrow, 

 yery elongate No. 14. 



Prothorax, base of head, and elytra uniformly greenish ; 

 tarsal claws widened basally ; body very narrow and 

 elouofate No. 15. 



11. Iclgia deusta. 

 Idgia deusta, Fairm. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) viii. p. 118 (1878). 



^ . Anterior tarsal joints 1-3 with a comb along their 

 inner edge ; posterior tibise (as in ? ) almost straight and 

 with very small spurs. Genital armature (PI. XL fig. 11) ; 

 lateral lobes long, broad, curved inward at the tip, as seen 

 from above ; median lobe long, rather narrow, feebly sinuate 

 from near the base, terminating in a slender hooked point. 



Hab. China [Fortune, m Mus. Brit.), Foo-Chow (C B. 

 Ricket, G. Lewis), Suiling in W. China [W. A. Maw)., 

 Shanghai {J. J. Walker). 



Numerous specimens from the above-mentioned localities 

 are referred to /. deusta, Fairm., the type of which was found 

 by Abbe David in Central China. Bourgeois (Ann. Soc. Ent. 

 Belg. xxxvi. p. 238, 1892) sinks the Chinese insect as 

 synonymous with the Indian /. melanura, Koll. & Redt., 

 which also has the tip of the elytra and the whole of the 

 head black, the legs and antennse infuscate, the eyes very 

 large, &c. ; the present species, however, has the upper 

 surface less densely punctate and more shining (approaching 



